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side, and the conspicuous lines marking the upper boundaries 

 of the temporal fossae are also clearly symmetrical with reference 

 to the long axis of the skull. The upper line, indicating the 

 upper limit of the temporal fascia or aponeurosis, curves upwards 

 at one point to a distance of 36 mm. from the middle line of the 

 cranial roof ; while the lower line, which marks the border of 

 the temporal muscle itself, rises to a maximum height of 32 mm. 

 above the summit of the squamous suture, and curves downwards 

 behind along the autero-inferior edge of the parietal flattening 

 already described. The median parietal (sagittal) suture is com- 

 pletely obliterated ; but the lambdoid suture is open, and its 

 outer lateral portion is shown to have been deeply serrated or 

 •complicated. The mastoid and squamous suture is open throughout 

 its length, and the squamous portion is as well arched as in a typical 

 modern human skull. The anteroinferior angle of the bone seems 

 to have been almost excluded from articulation with the alisphenoid. 

 The cerebral face, though deeply impressed with the grooves for 

 the meningeal vessels, bears no distinct marks of the Pacchionian 

 bodies. The length of the parietal region along the line of the 

 sagittal suture is 120 mm.; while the total length of its border at 

 the lambdoid suture is about 210 mm. 



The occipital bone (PL XX, figs. 1, 1 a, & 1 b) is remarkable, both 

 for its great width and for the relatively large extent and flatness 

 of its smooth upper squamous portion. The depth of this upper 

 portion, from the lambda to the external occipital protuberance, is 

 55 mm. ; while the total length of the curve from the lambda to 

 the middle of the hinder border of the foramen magnum (opisthion, 

 f.mag.), is only 110 mm. The external occipital protuberance 

 (e.o.p.) is distinctly marked, about twice as wide as deep ; while 

 the ridges of the superior (u.c.l.) and inferior (l.c.l.) curved lines, 

 the median occipital crest (e.o.c), and the other usual irregularities 

 for muscle-attachments are also conspicuous. Above the occipital 

 protuberance may be. seen faintly the linea suprema (l.s.). The 

 cerebral face of the bone (fig. 1 a) is interesting as showing the 

 unsymmetrical character of the cerebellum — a condition common in 

 modern man of both low and high degree. The grooved horizontal 

 ridge (si.) on the right side of the vertical median ridge is com- 

 pletely above that on the left side, so that the upper surface of the 

 tentorium over the cerebellum (cb.) on this side would be about 

 15 mm. above that on the left side. It is also important to observe 

 that the external occipital protuberance is below the upper limit 

 of the tentorium, as in modern man : not raised above it, as in the 

 skull of Mousterian man. 



The left temporal bone is excellently preserved, lacking only 

 some of the upper part of the squamous wing (PI. XIX, figs. 2, 2 a, 

 2b, & 2c). It is typically human in every detail, and corresponds 

 more closely with the same bone in a comparatively modern 

 human skull from an alluvial deposit near Lewes (Brit. Mus. 7571), 

 than with that in the skull of an existing Helanesian from the 



